Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…

the flies were, like, everywhere, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flies · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flies	det
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 everywhere	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 everywhere	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 everywhere	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	7 everywhere	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 everywhere	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	7 everywhere	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 everywhere	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the flies					everywhere property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

they buzzed around the stable all night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 buzzed	nsubj
2	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	5 stable	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stable	det
5	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 buzzed	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buzzed	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 buzzed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past	they			the stable	night	long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around stable=Location

Option 2

they stung every face and every hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stung	nsubj
2	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 face	det
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stung	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hand	cc
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past	they	every face and every hand					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus face=Experiencer

Option 3

they stung the horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stung	nsubj
2	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stung	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past	they	the horses					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they stung every face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stung	nsubj
2	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 face	det
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stung	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past	they	every face					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus face=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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